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Ten Ren reopened in Hanoi in May and announced plans to return to Ho Chi Minh City. Its first attempt in Vietnam lasted 21 months and ended when its local licensee, not Taiwan headquarters, decided to shut all 23 stores.
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A reader asked why Vietnam's big cities stay busy past midnight, and why 24-hour cafes actually have customers. We followed the question from the pre-dawn wholesale market all the way to the policy documents Hanoi issued this year.
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How did the Vietnamese caregivers and factory workers you see in Taiwan get here — and why are they the largest group of undocumented workers? Seen from Vietnam, this isn't a "migrant problem" but a 40-year-old industry called labor export.
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Vietnam's National Wage Council has signed off on a 7.8% average minimum wage increase for 2027. For firms already paying above the legal floor, the real cost isn't base pay — it's the social insurance pegged to the minimum wage. Here's where costs actually rise, and how companies respond.
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Overtime bonuses, per-table surcharges and an 89,000-dong ticket combo — how Vietnam's food and drink scene turned a 2 AM World Cup final into a full night of business.
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Vietnam's MoMo is a payment super app; Taiwan's momo is an e-commerce giant. The two namesakes hit opposite turning points — one turned its first profit in 2024 and now has Blackstone and MUFG bidding for its shares; the other posted its first-ever revenue decline in 2025.
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Saigon's busiest tourist quarter is named after a man few visitors could identify: a basket weaver who became the general the Mongols could not beat. The street itself began as a nameless lane beside a colonial railway station.
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When people think of Vietnamese food, they picture pho and grilled pork. But roughly one in ten Vietnamese eat vegetarian, and signs reading "Cơm Chay" line the streets of every major city. The forces behind this go far beyond religion.
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Nearly one in four flights in Vietnam left late this June. Sounds bad — until you look back: last June the on-time rate was just 56%. The other side of this delay wave is the slow recovery from an engine-recall crisis that once took a fifth of Vietnam's fleet out of the sky.
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Average pay of VND 9 million, salaried average of VND 10 million, minimum wage of VND 5.31 million — Vietnam's salary statistics look contradictory. This guide untangles what each number measures, then benchmarks Vietnamese pay against Taiwan.
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Hanoi apartment prices rose a third in a year while villa prices dropped a fifth — both figures from the same report. Unpack how they are calculated and they tell one story. The number actually rewriting the market is the floating mortgage rate, now at 15% and climbing.
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All a smuggled diamond needs to become legal is a certificate. In the ring Vietnamese police just busted, the man issuing certificates allegedly ground off GIA inscriptions and printed new reports — at a lab wholly owned by PNJ, Vietnam's largest jeweler.